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Syria’s Bashar al-Assad, right, and Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi, left Borna News/Matin Ghasemi/Aksonline ATPImages/Getty Images To continue reading for free, please register your details below Already registered? Click here to log in We will use the details you have shared to manage your registration. You agree to the processing, storage, sharing and…

Baghdad remained committed to Damascus ending its 12-year absence, says Fuad HusseinIraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein, left, meets Saudi deputy foreign minister Walid Al Khuraiji in Jeddah. SPA Powered by automated translation Iraq played a vital role in restoring Syria's position in the Arab League, Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein said…

Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky attended the Arab League summit in Saudi Arabia on Friday. The leader criticized some in the region for "turning a blind eye" to Russia's war, but also thanked Saudi Arabia and others for their support. The Ukrainian leader’s participation adds to an already historic summit in…

Arab leaders welcomed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad back into the fold Friday at a summit in Saudi Arabia that also grappled with conflicts across the Middle East and beyond. A triumphant Assad called for a "new phase" in regional cooperation in his remarks to the summit, which also featured a…

/ Middle East Issued on: 19/05/2023 - 04:35 01:33 Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is greeted by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) ahead of the Arab League summit, in Jeddah Saudi Arabia on May 19, 2023. © SANA, Reuters Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was given a warm welcome at…

President Bashar al-Assad was shunned over atrocities committed in Syria’s civil war, but on Friday he is expected to join an annual summit of Arab leaders for the first time in 13 years. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month.…

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AFP) — Syria ended over a decade of exile from the Arab League on Monday as officials participated in a preparatory session ahead of Friday’s summit in Saudi Arabia. “I… take this opportunity to welcome the Syrian Arab Republic to the League of Arab States,” Saudi Finance Minister…

The Simseks have spent months huddling in tents next to their old home, laid to waste by Turkey's catastrophic quake. How they vote Sunday could prove decisive to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's future. Amid the wreckage of ancient Antakya, a mountain-rimmed cradle of civilisation on Turkey's border with Syria, grandfather…

Saudi authorities announced a major drug bust on Wednesday seizing more than 8 million Captagon pills, at the time that the kingdom is courting the Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad to help in combatting drug smuggling.  The latest bust came as Reuters reported that Saudi Arabia has offered Syria "proposed…

QAMISHLI, Syria — Sitting on a classroom chair, his fingers drumming nervously on a tablet, a young boy slowly raises his head to reveal a pair of pale green eyes, high cheekbones and a chiseled jaw. “I want to become a doctor,” he said. He probably never will. Salih, 15,…